2 results for month: 08/2022

IN THE MEDIA: NYC enlists community groups to help close monkeypox vaccine gaps for Black and brown residents

By Caroline Lewis and Jaclyn Jeffrey-Wilensky Gothamist “[Health care] providers really need to spend time educating, answering questions, working through the mistrust issues, and trying to dispel all of the rumors and the misinformation that is out there" - Jacqui Kilmer, Harlem United CEO New York City is finally showing some progress toward quelling this summer’s alarming monkeypox outbreak — but the city is calling on community groups to close a gap in vaccines for Black and brown New Yorkers. The number of new cases is starting to trend downward across the five boroughs each day, while the number of people vaccinated against the virus ...

Letter to the CDC on MPV

Harlem United and other community-based organizations have been in continuous contact with the CDC, urging measures to equitably contain the MPV outbreak: Increase the proportion of vaccines allocated to NYC so that it is equitable relative to the proportion of all known infections diagnosed in NYC;Follow the lead of NY State Governor Kathy Hochul and NYC Mayor Eric Adams by partnering with the White House to declare monkeypox a public health emergency so that funding can support the vaccination, public education, and related patient care needed;Require the FDA to shift TPOXX from “Experimental” to “Emergency Use Authorization” to prevent ...